European Language Portfolio for academic useImplementation in the Czech Republic

PhDr. Marie HanzlkovUK FF JC, Praha Plze 2.-3. 7. 2003

ELPKey word for FLT.Devised by the Council of Europe's Modern Languages Division. Piloted in many countries throughout Europe between 1998 and 2000.The year 2001 - the European Year of Languages - official launch of this programme. By the year 2010 young adults should have their personal ELP, which would show their foreign/ second language development and which could be shown on request.

Types of LPDifferent types for different age groups & purposes.European LP - must fulfil criteria set by the Council of Europe. CE - European Validation Committee * meets twice a year to accredit ELP * to be accredited, ELP models must comply with the guidelines approved by the CE.

ELP - structure

Language passport

Language biography

Dossier

ELP functions REPORTING * enables people of all ages to develop their capacity to plan, monitor and evaluate their own learning; to record significant intercultural experiences; to collect evidence of their language skills; to document their language learning achievements and thus become self-managing.

PEDAGOGICAL * helps the individual teachers and the educational institutions to describe their courses and certificates more clearly by relating them to the Council of Europe's common reference levels.

Language passportsummarizes the owner's linguistic identity, language learning achievement, intercultural experience;

includes the owner's assessment of his/her own language competence according to the CEFR.

Language biography

sets intermediate learning goals;

reviews progress;

records significant language learning and intercultural experiences.

Dossier

collects samples of the owners work and evidence of his/her achievements in the second/foreign language learning.

ELP for academic use1998 - Centre for Language and Communication Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland - prof. David Little; For young adults, 16+;Higher or university education, academic use;Accredited by the CE in 2002.

For all the languagesAll levels of CEFR A1-C2All language skills* reading* writing* listening* speaking - spoken interaction - spoken production

ELP Czech Rep.

Commercial ELP for very young and young learners & secondary school students.

University level of ELP in the CR

CercleS CASALC , 2003;Implementation rules;Pilot version in English and French; 68 pages.pdf format12 university language centres contact: ludmila.souhradova@ff.cuni.cz

Language passportPersonal identificationProfile of language skills Summary of LL and intercultural experienceAppendix CEFR self-assessment grid

Language biography

1/ experience in learning and using second/ foreign languages

2/ Current language targets and monitoring of learning progress:

* goal-setting and self-assessment checklists

* learning to learn pages

Dossier

Album of samples of the owners best samples, examples and works in given languages

Difficulties!?TimeMethods study programmesRole of teacher less important than on lower stages self-management, motivationMore abstract descriptors (cat- pets & animals- nature- environment- issues of my study programme)

Self-assesment - for the students

Self-assessment chart for writing a story * pre-intermediate students * NSFC textbook

Evaluation of ELPfor any language, it enables an evaluation to be carried out in terms that are clear, comprehensible, non-prescriptive and transnational, and that fully embrace the wide diversity of approaches to language teaching and learning as well as the multiplicity of evaluations which exist in Europe.

The "Reporting function" of the ELP also has an important role to play in the university context, particularly with regard to admission examinations, participation in mobility programmes, entry into postgraduate studies, recognition of studies carried out in foreign universities, or of other types of language experience including visits abroad or professional placements in foreign countries. Piloting the European Language Portfolio in the Higher Education Sector: An ELC/CEL transnational project, Forster Vosicki B.: Universit de Lausanne, CH, http://www.fu-berlin.de/elc/bulletin/6/en/forster.html

Little D., Perclova R.: European Language Portfolio Guide for Teachers and Teacher Trainers, CE, 2001 (MSMT R 2002)

ELP, CercleS, 2002

ludmila.souhradova@ff.cuni.cz

Web pages in operation in June 2003 http://culture.coe.int/portfolio http://www.alte.orghttp://www.cilt.org.uk